Is it possible for time to be frozen?
Essentially, yes. Scientists at Quebec’s National Institute of Scientific Research have developed T-CUP, the world’s fastest camera, which can capture 10 trillion frames per second. T-CUP makes it possible to “freeze” time to observe phenomena—even light—in extremely slow motion. The first time it was used the camera captured the temporal focusing of a single femtosecond laser pulse—in real time—and revealed its characteristics. (A femtosecond is one-quadrillionth of a second.) Thanks to this imaging speed, T-CUP is able to power the next generation of microscopes for many scientific applications, including analysis of interactions between light and matter.